Repairing a Split Table Top on Antique Furniture, a Fixing Furniture Restoration
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- This is a very old piece of Canadian furniture. The top of the table was split, one of the drawer supports was missing, and the table tilted to the back left corner. Watch to see how it gets repaired and restored to working order.
This table is typically called a lamp table or a kitchen work table. It can also be referred to as a pre-confederation table as it was made before Canadian confederation in 1867.
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Great techniques, informative interesting and practical
100% modify. Keep the look but make it last.
I agree, especially if the modifications are not intrusive.
Nicely done. My approach to most antiques that need modified is similar to what Jay Leno does with vintage cars; make improvements that they should’ve or would’ve done at the time if they’d known about them or had the materials or tools. Also, it depends on the intervention of the fate of the piece. I refinished a piece that needed extensive repair but without it the piece would have been thrown in the trash.
That's a beautiful piece :)
I have a good technique for clamping up the table top that would avoid all the hassles. I have three long pieces that I've ripped into triangles, roughly 20-30 degrees. Then using cauls like you have on the bottom, I run some soft twine in figure 8s around the cauls and loosely across the top. Slide in the triangle wedges (also covered with packing tape and rounded over the top edges) into the figure 8s, alternating directions. Gently tap the wedges to tighten the twine. This will both keep the boards flat and pull them together. This works great for very thin pieces but would also work fine for your table top. This was a featured tip that I submitted to Wood Magazine a couple of years ago.
A very nice and simple-looking two centuries old table, Scott. Congratulations on repairing and restoring it.
Nice respectful repair. I watch "The Repair Shop" too and have been conflicted about some of the choices they have made. My feeling is to follow art restorers guidelines such as making repairs that can be undone in the future. Another reason for hide glue. The "figure 8's" are okay too since they will never be mistaken for original. All repairs should be blended in but not to the point of fooling someone they're original. Another guideline is it is okay to fix something as might have been done by the maker along the lifetime of the piece as general maintenance. Drawer slides wearing out etc.
I wonder why you didn't shellac seal the drawer bottom and back of the top to cut down further humidity swelling. But that is a pet peeve of mine...so many videos , including Norm Abrams', that the underside of the top gets no finish! Or at least some sealer.
I have a similar table made out of walnut with a two drawers on the front. My was probably made in weatern Switzerland. The tabletop is held on with four pegs, and it also developed cracks. I wonder if people used to commonly attach tabletops that way?
I'd call and ask the customer what they want!
Great work as usual!
Meticulously done, great work!
Très joli travail,,à bientôt salut Jeannot 🛠😉
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